Mine workers

Maneshez solutions services; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A mining service provider in Johannesburg is urgently seeking mine workers to perform various underground duties. Responsibilities include operating drills and machinery, loading explosives, ensuring safety, and maintaining mining equipment. Candidates must be prepared to work in challenging environments, often exposed to extreme temperatures.

Responsibilities

• Set up and operate drills and drilling machines for blasting holes.
• Operate specialized drills for geological formations and underground passageways.
• Shear coal, rock, or ore from the working face using mining machinery.
• Load explosives and detonate for desired blasting patterns.
• Load and haul ore from various mine points using machines.
• Ensure safety by scaling loose rock, drilling, and installing rock bolts.
• Inspect mine shafts and operate hoists for transport.
• Perform routine maintenance of mining machinery.

Job description

We are urgently seeking for mine workers

Underground miners would do the following duties:

• set up and operate drills and drilling machines to produce a designated pattern of blasting holes
• operate diamond drills or other specialized drills such as raise boring machinery to test geological formations or to produce underground passageways
• set up and operate mining machinery to shear coal, rock or ore from the working face
• load explosives, set fuses, and detonate explosives to produce desired blasting patterns and rock fragmentation in underground mines
• operate scoop tram, load-haul-dump (LHD) machine or mucking machine to load and haul ore from stopes, drifts and draw points to ore passes
• perform duties required to ensure safety and to support the mining advance, such as scaling loose rock from walls and roof, drilling and installing rock bolts, extending and installing air and water pipes
• operating ore loading machinery, inspecting mine shafts, operating hoists that transport people, equipment and materials through mine shafts, and constructing timber supports and cribbing if required
• perform routine maintenance of mining machinery

Working conditions Back to Top ?

Miners may work indoors or outdoors, often in enclosed environments. If they work outdoors, they are more likely to be exposed to outside weather. If they work indoors, they work in an enclosed environment. Indoor locations may not be temperature-controlled, so they may be exposed to very hot or very cold temperatures.